NASA finds little strength left in Tropical Cyclone Herold
Credit: NASA/NRL Wind shear pushed former Tropical Cyclone Herold apart and infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed the system ...
Tag: Earth Science
Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem
New study published in GeologyCredit: Image credit: Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum. Boulder, Colo., USA: A topic of considerable interest ...
NASA analyzes tropical cyclone Herold’s water vapor concentration
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean on Mar. 18, it gathered water vapor ...
Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbors
Credit: Christopher Michel The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century, raising the ...
Greenland shed ice at unprecedented rate in 2019; Antarctica continues to lose mass
UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking resultsCredit: Linette Boisvert / NASA Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2020 ...
Beetles changed their diet during the Cretaceous period
International team under the leadership of the University of Bonn decodes 99 million-year-old amber fossilsCredit: © J.A. Peñas Like a ...
Crop diversity can buffer the effects of climate change
Stanford researchers uncover benefits of diversified farms for protecting wildlife and buffering against climate changeCredit: Nick Hendershot How we farm ...
Comparisons of organic and conventional agriculture need to be better, say researchers
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers The environmental effects of agriculture and food are hotly debated. But the most widely used method of ...
Common anti-parasite treatments used on cattle have devastating impacts on wildlife
Experts have stressed an urgent need to find alternatives to wormers and anti-ectoparasitic products used widely on cattleCredit: © Fiona ...
Tropical Cyclone Herold’s eye opens further on NASA satellite imagery
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Cyclone Herold intensified, its eye appeared more defined in imagery taken by NASA's Terra ...
How horses can save the permafrost
New mitigation strategy bears great potentialCredit: Pleistocene Park Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large additional ...
Even a limited India-Pakistan nuclear war would bring global famine, says study
Soot from firestorms would reduce crop production for yearsCredit: Adapted from Jägermeyr et al., 2020 The concept of nuclear winter--a ...
Limited nuclear war could have big impact on world food supplies
India vs. Pakistan conflict could lead to worst food losses in modern historyCredit: Julie Doll, MSU/NSF KBS LTER Site A ...
Shifts in deep geologic structure may have magnified great 2011 Japan tsunami
Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angleCredit: Adapted from Oryan and Buck, Nature Geoscience 2020 On March 11, 2011, ...
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